The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-01-20

4 discussion of questions thai wTl7T

| 81. - ne farmers. Il was carried.
" of Granville, MAS the next
| Spe.tA- Farmers ought not To expect To
/ ha, heir difficulties taken away by legis-
! la'-l- He vas and is opposed 10 the
/ noH stead law. II has worked only dam
| ase the people OF North Carolina Ii
invites hribery and corruption. Great
| applause Dad il Indicate the feeling OF
| the people against the homestead law
he homestead law protects few indi
| Tlduai, and oppresses the masses lie
wanted the farmers independent, even II
they had 10 drink water AMI eat corn bread
The farmers asked for protection. If a
man viii not pay his debts he ought 10 90
10 the pen Tertiary. II the Legislature
can't repeal the homestead law, let them
trim Il down. We must strike az the evil
kill the Homestead law. You must
strike at the root of the tpas tree. The
mortgage business ruins every body You
can't destroy the Agricultural Bureau AT A
blow Ii II has ever done any good TO a
farmer IN North Carolina. except in the
Chemist Department, have not seen him
Lei us develop what is good and abolish
all mat is not good. He said he Was tired
OF seeing appropriations To educate his
soas at colleges where his sons who are all
gals can't 90. Applause.
Mr. Mcdonald, Of Cabarrus. was the
next speaker. He offered resolution
asking the Legislature 10 abolish the
homestead law. Upon motion of Mr.
Kitchen the resolution was laid upon the
table.
Prof Alexander Mclver thought the
people of North Carolina were welded to
the homestead and that they wanted it
and that if submitted to the people they
would defeat i. 1t might be well To re-
uuce it,
Representatives John Sharp, known at
his home in Nash as "Old Gloriful," was
proud TO say that the homestead law had
never done him any good. He was proud
that many poor ''Inen and wimmen" had
a hole to poke their heads in because Of
the law. He lost thousands of dollars by
the homestead law, but was proud to have
lost it SO that the poor folks have hole
to poke their head in. Applause.
Senator J. W. Saunders discussed at
length some of the causes which had
brought the farmer to these hard times
1t was not small crops-we have too much
crop. Among other causes the buying of
so much manure was one that had made
the farmer poor. The mortgage system
was another. He thought the farmers
would never be united but that they ought
to be.
Mr.. Arthur Arlington, of Franklin, had
hoped to find out the remedies for the
hard times-especially the lack Of money.
The farmer cannot Fay the high prices any
longer. one of the chief difficulties was
that the national banks could not lend
money on real estate. He proposed a res
| olution memorializing the Legislature to
pass a general law allowing the establish
| ment of savings banks in the State that
will be able to lend money on real estate.
| On motion of Mr.. Julius Allen, accom-
panied by suitable remarks, Mr.. AIRING
tons resolution was adopted.
| Mr. Arlington introduced a resolution
requesting the Legislature to forbid the
dealing in futures IN provisions and pro-
| duce.
! Mr. ". H. Kitchen, ''the only original"
| next spoke. He thought law could be
| passed TO throw around the people protec
| tion from thieves. He believed gambling
gambling. He spoke as strongly as usual
and was as quaint and original in his de-
| nuDciation of futures.
/ Col. W. +. Green thought that gambling
! by buying lottery tickets was another
! great evil and that it ought to be prohib
! tied and that the papers ought to be pro
/ hihited from advertising them. He offer
/ ed d resolution requesting the Legislature
! to make it an indictable offence to adver
| Use or alu IN the sale OF lottery tickets,
| lotteries or other drawings.
Both were adopted-pettioning the
! Legislature to forbid dealing in futures or
! in lotteries, after much discussion
! A committee of three were appointed to
memoralize the Legislature to request
| Congress to repeal the tax Oh State banks.
! The Hatch bill for the establishment of
! experiment stations in the several States,
now pending in Congress, was endorsed.
| Adjourned sine die.